Please help!!! Help with CA/ Append

[Former Member]

Hey all Gurus,

I really need to get this done by tomorrow. What I am looking for is suppose I have

a number - XYZ54, I need to first check if there are 5 digits after xyz, if yes ignore, if no I have to add zeros before so that the number becomes XYZ00054.

Can anyone please help me with this?

Thanks, Nina.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Run this sample.

data : st type string value 'XYZ754',

st1 type string value 'XYZ',

st2 type string.

data: len type i,

len1 type i,

off type i.

len = strlen( st ). "5

if st(3) = 'XYZ'.

len1 = len - 3.

if len < 8.

st2 = 'XYZ'.

off = 8 - len.

do off times.

concatenate st2 '0' into st2.

enddo.

concatenate st2 st+3(len1) into st2.

endif.

write st2.

endif.

Regds,

Vinsa.R

Message was edited by:

vinsar chand

Message was edited by:

vinsar chand

[RichHeilman]

Assuming that the first three are always the same, this code is a little simpler.

report zrich_0001.


data: str type string value 'XYZ54'.
data: sub(5) type n.
data: len type i.
data: n_len type i.
data: result type string.

len = strlen( str ).
n_len  = len - 3.
sub = str+3(n_len).

concatenate str+0(3) sub into result.

write:/ result.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

Hi Nina

Rich has specified the first assumption that first 3 chars will be XYZ.

There hides the second assumption. Later part in the string after 3 chars is always numeric.

Just incase, it can be alpha numeric, you might consider using FM: CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT with the output variable of length 5.

For numeric cases, Rich's example would just be perfect.

Rich,

Correct me if i am wrong.

Kind Regards

Eswar

[Former Member]

Rich,

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank You so much for your help.

Happy Holidays!

[RichHeilman]

Eswar, you are very much correct, my assumptions were that, the first 3 characters we really don't care what they are, but as long as it is 3 characters, and that the next few characters, regardless of length(and must be <= 5) must be numeric, the code that I have written is VERY speicifc to the data presented, of course, other code could be written to handle more exceptions.

Regards,

RIch Heilman

[Former Member]

Thanks for the clarification Rich.

Regards

Eswar